Ndi-Agu communities in Ugbenu, Awka North Local Government Area will soon begin unhindered communal relationship with their Ndi-Uno counterparts.
This relationship will be made possible by the construction of a twin culvert powered by the Anambra Community and Social Development Agency, World Bank-assisted.
Anambra Community and Social Development Agency, CSDA, saddled with the responsibility of assisting communities’ combat extreme poverty through World Bank assisted projects across pro-poor communities in the state.
Ugbenu community which chose two projects, the construction of culvert and secondary school as their priority projects, opted that the culvert be constructed first to save them from the untold hardship experienced during rainy season.
Presenting a cheque for eight hundred and two thousand, eighteen naira, eighty kobo being thirty percent payment of the culvert project to the community, the General Manager, CSDA, Mr. Chudi Mojekwu said the projects will cost about ten million naira with the community contributing ten percent in cash or kind.
Mr. Mojekwu who described the gesture as demand and community driven, commended the Ugbenu community for being the first in history to pay their counterpart funding in full before the commencement of the project.
He however cautioned that there will be penalty if they deviate from the specifications stipulated in the Community Development Plan agreement.
The Operations Manager of the agency, Mrs. Uche Nwizugbo also called for ownership and accountability.
The President General of the community, Barrister Godian Afah while thanking Governor Obiano for remembering them, said they chose the construction of the culvert first to save them from having to swim across the Nnam stream during the rainy season.
The chairman, Ugbenu Community Project Management Committee, Pastor Cosmas Okafor, and some other members of the Committee including Reverend Peter Okoro who is also the Parish Priest of Saint Andrews Anglican Church Ugbenu and Charity Chioke expressed readiness to put
in their best for the good of the community.
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